A former chief inspector of schools the North of Scotland, Robert Stark Johnston, has died aged 87.
Born in Kilsyth, Mr Johnston was educated at Lenzie Academy and Glasgow University.
His university course was interrupted by war service in Palestine with the army, where he rose to the rank of sergeant.
He finally emerged with a first-class honours degree from Glasgow University and did his teacher training at Jordanhill College, before taking up his first teaching post at Falkirk High School.
During a spell as deputy head of English at Hemsworth Grammar School in Yorkshire, where he met his future wife Edna, a French teacher, they both taught Yorkshire and England batsman Geoff Boycott.
He then became head of English at a school in Leeds before returning to Scotland to work at Jordanhill in 1960.
Three years later he took up a post as inspector for schools in Fife, covering the whole region before heading back to Glasgow as district inspector there.
Mr Johnston moved to Dundee in 1973 when he was appointed chief inspector of schools for the northern division, covering the north of Scotland from Dundee to the Highlands and Islands, for the following 10 years.
He and his wife raised two girls in the city and although he spent two years working with the Scottish Office in Edinburgh from 1985 until he retired in 1987, the couple settled in Dundee and have remained there since, living in Broughty Ferry.
A keen golfer, he was a member of Panmure Golf Club at Barry and was also a member of the Dundee Association of Glasgow Graduates.
Mr Johnston is survived by his wife Edna, daughters Heather and Shiela and four grandchildren.